Guest op-eds, City Limits bloggers and reaction from readers
‘As we start to recover from this pandemic, it’s clear that New York City’s investments in natural areas need to be sustained for both their short-term benefits — like recreational space to socially distance and hundreds of green jobs — and long-term benefits — like climate change mitigation and adaptation.’
The mayor ‘can and should secure vacant hotel rooms for homeless New Yorkers, including those who are street homeless.’
‘Summer programming is not just a fun alternative to school: It is child care for essential workers. It is educational stimulation that helps mitigate summer learning loss in neighborhoods where most students read below grade level.’
‘We’re urging the City Council to maintain funding for public defenders and help ensure that low-income New Yorkers have the support and services they need, and have access to justice that others take for granted.’
‘Maintaining social distance and staying healthy is impossible in antiquated and crowded prisons. Yet elected officials have turned a blind eye to this ongoing crisis.’
‘We must protect and support these organizations so the critical staff and programs which our residents rely on can stay in place through the crisis and emerge from the crisis when the need for human services, educational, and cultural programming will surely escalate.’
‘We need leaders who are fighting for a true recovery for all, and not just for band-aids to respond to the crisis and then try to return to the status quo.’
‘Millions of New Yorkers receiving unemployment insurance benefits (UI) will be faced with one of UI’s absurd and counter-intuitive realities – the money is taxable by the federal and state governments.”
‘The COVID 19 pandemic boldly underscores the need for housing and health to be coordinated at the front end of planning a development project.’
‘There is one realistic pathway forward, and it involves all of the terms that terrify the establishment: radical change, revolution, and reclaiming our communities.’
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